Carmen Morris from Shelby Township sports a large hat with a parrot at the Jimmy Buffet tailgate event on Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit.

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They brought sand and inflatable pools - one had its own floating shark. They wore straw hats and straw skirts with bikini bottoms underneath, Hawaiian shirts and lots and lots of leis as they, the Parrotheads, as they prefer to be known, descended on Comerica Park on Saturday for a daylong beach party before Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band took the stage.

Tailgaters filled nearly every inch of real estate in front of the stadium, drinking, eating, getting their photos taken with a giant tiger dressed in a Jimmy Buffett T-shirt that said: "This one's for you Detroit."